Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai
Foster, Michael Dylan
Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known asyôkaihave long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and mysterious in Japan seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines, and movies, exploring their meanings in the Japanese cultural imagination and offering an abundance of valuable and, until now, understudied material. Michael Dylan Foster tracksyôkaiover three centuries, from their appearance in seventeenth-century natural histories to their starring role in twentieth-century popular media. Focusing on the intertwining of belief and commodification, fear and pleasure, horror and humor, he illuminates different conceptions of the "natural" and the "ordinary" and sheds light on broader social and historical paradigms—and ultimately on the construction of Japan as a nation.
年:
2008
版本:
First Edition
出版商:
University of California Press
語言:
english
頁數:
312
ISBN 10:
0520253620
ISBN 13:
9780520253629
文件:
PDF, 3.32 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2008